{"id":292074,"date":"2023-09-26T07:04:06","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/?p=292074"},"modified":"2023-09-26T07:04:06","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T07:04:06","slug":"jalen-carter-eagles-defense-hold-buccaneers-to-174-yards-in-monday-night-win-this-defense-is-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tellmysport.com\/nfl\/jalen-carter-eagles-defense-hold-buccaneers-to-174-yards-in-monday-night-win-this-defense-is-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Jalen Carter, Eagles defense hold Buccaneers to 174 yards in Monday night win: &#x27;This defense is awesome&#x27;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers&#8217; feel-good story to start the season lasted two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Then the reigning NFC champions came to town.<\/p>\n<p>Led by Jalen Carter, a burgeoning force in the middle of the defensive line, the Philadelphia Eagles defense simply dominated, holding the Bucs to a meager 174 yards of offense in a 25-11 win on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This defense is awesome,&#8221; Carter said, via team transcript. &#8220;I love the defense. Everybody trusts one another. Everybody plays their role and do what they got to do. And if somebody is going down, it&#8217;s that next man up and we are not worried about who the next man is. We trust him just as much as we trust the guy that&#8217;s starting the game. I love this defense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Carter, the 2023 NFL Draft&#8217;s No. 9 overall pick, was beastly for the Eagles, decorating the stat line with two tackles, half a sack, a quarterback hit and two forced fumbles.<\/p>\n<p>Philadelphia had a pair of takeaways on Monday. The Eagles have forced eight turnovers so far this season and multiple in each game &#8212; the only NFL team to do so. They added a safety when Carter and Nicholas Morrow burst through the line to obliterate Rachaad White on a carry going nowhere but backward.<\/p>\n<h2>          <span>            Related Links          <\/span>        <\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>              2023 NFL season, Week 3: What We Learned from Monday night doubleheader&#xA0;            <\/li>\n<li>              Commanders QB Sam Howell after four-interception loss to Buffalo: &#x27;The sun&#x27;ll come up tomorrow&#x27;            <\/li>\n<li>              Cowboys QB Dak Prescott on upset loss to Cardinals: &#x27;It sucks, it&#x27;s humbling&#x27;            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most impressive was the Philadelphia front&#8217;s ability to completely suffocate an already struggling Buccaneers running game. Tampa Bay had just 41 yards and one first down on the ground off 17 carries.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to weigh in on his running game, Bucs head coach Todd Bowles, straight-faced as ever, summed up his squad&#8217;s travails.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We didn&#8217;t have one,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I mean, it&#8217;s just \u2026 we&#8217;re not going to sit here and sugarcoat anything &#8212; we own what we have.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Passing was no picnic either, as Mayfield followed up a 317-yard showing in Week 2 &#8212; his first 300-yard game since Week 5 of 2021 &#8212; with 146 yards and his first interception of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I mean, they&#8217;re really good defensively,&#8221; Mayfield said. &#8220;They&#8217;re front &#8212; I mean, they&#8217;re incredible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles haven&#8217;t allowed more than 76 rushing yards in a game this season. They&#8217;re still causing turnovers and havoc aplenty. A season after a run to the Super Bowl, they replaced Jonathan Gannon with Sean Desai at defensive coordinator and so far haven&#8217;t missed a beat.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a fundamental approach, according to Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni, that continues to lead the way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really had a lot of confidence in our defense and we hired Sean because we had a lot of confidence in him and he&#8217;s done a nice job,&#8221; Sirianni said. &#8220;I think what we&#8217;re doing well, what we&#8217;re really doing well is we&#8217;re playing with good fundamentals, and that will &#8212; and playing physical &#8212; and those will take you through no matter what level of football &#8212; playing physical and playing with good fundamentals will take you through Pee Wee football, middle school football, high school football, college football, professional football. I think we&#8217;re doing a nice job tackling, I think they&#8217;re doing a really good job and that&#8217;s fundamentals and the coaches and the players have worked hard after each practice, you know the time they&#8217;ve put into those fundamentals.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fundamentals aren&#8217;t sexy, but they&#8217;re fruitful.<\/p>\n<p>The Eagles continue to showcase fundamentals, depth up front and overall defensive dominance.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Philadelphia is one of a trio of 3-0 teams in the NFL and its defense is the prevailing reason as to why.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nfl.com\/news\/jalen-carter-eagles-defense-hold-buccaneers-to-174-yards-in-monday-night-win-thi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers&#8217; feel-good story to start the season lasted two weeks. Then the reigning NFC champions came to town. 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